if you're medicare eligible, call now... and talk to unitedhealthcare about our plans, like aarp medicarecomplete. let's get you on the right path. call today. ♪ >>> today's monthly jobs report shows unemployment has dropped to 7.7% with the creation of 146,000 new jobs. the lowest rate since december of 2008. numbers can be misleading and bring in our expert greg, u.s. economics editor for the economist. good news, bad news? >> kind of mixed news. the number was a lot stronger than wall street was expecting because wall street thought that hurricane in the northeast would have taken a big chung out of hiring. the bureau of labor statistics when they released that number they couldn't find much hurricane impact on the number. 146,000 a decent number but in line with what the job growth has been doing. it's very close to its average for the past year. and taking a little bit of the team steam out of the number the government revised down the number of jobs created in the prior two months. the picture a little weaker than we